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SEO & Images

by Joshua Unseth on May 2, 2009


SEO on images is really important. Every picture is another opportunity to use the keyword(s) you’ve been optimizing for, and images.google.com, actually generates a surprising amount of traffic if you optimize well for an image that everyone likes. The Brown Spectator, for example, at one time was the #1 entry on images.google.com when you searched [...]


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Google gets their Water-based Data Center Patent

April 29, 2009

Back in September, Google made waves by submitting a patent for wave-powered datacenter. Yesterday, SEO By the Sea reported that Google was granted its patent. Congratulations Google!

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Speeding Up WordPress

April 29, 2009

Joost De Valk put together a presentation for the A4U Expo in Europe yesterday. His slideshow is great. And I think I’ll do a few posts focusing on the points he put together. WordPress Optimisation – A4UExpo View more presentations from Joost De valk. Install WP-SuperCache Joost recommends that you install a plugin called WP-SuperCache [...]

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Magazines and their PDFs: the Duplicate Content Dilemma

April 18, 2009

A lot of magazines make their content available both on their site and in a pdf somewhere on the site. The obvious problem this poses to online content is simply that search engines don’t like duplicate content. If your me, and you host most of your pdfs on a server like ISSUU than you have [...]

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Search Engine Ranking Factors

March 4, 2009

For some time I’ve been using the SEOmoz’s free service. It’s incredibly useful. If my little business grows, I’ll certainly purchase their monthly option. They have a bunch of useful tools that help me to assess how to better increase my websites’ search rankings. Anyhow, they have the most comprehensive, not to mention helpful, list [...]

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New Thoughts on Multipage Posts

February 15, 2009

So up until recently I’ve been a proponent of multi-page posts for magazine developers. I figured, if you are struggling to monetize your magazine, what better way to do that then to get people onto more pages. It increases your pageviews and, as a result, your ad revenue. I mean, that was my thought process. [...]

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Dare to be Search Engine Optimized

January 14, 2009

A few months ago, I went through the entire brown spectator site and changed permalinks. First, I went to a shorter permalink structure. Then, I went page by page cleaning my slugs and filling them with keywords and phrases that people might search. Now, changing your slugs is not an easy decision to make. Changing [...]

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Caching for Super SEO

December 16, 2008

A lot of these Open CMS frameworks use a lot of calls to the database in order to generate their content. One of the sites I work with has been pretty well traficked. But I increased traffic overnight by 20% simply by using the WP Super Cache plugin. For WordPress, WP Super Cache is an [...]

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